Jax
@Jax@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on A lot less blue too... Hmmmm.... 12 hours ago:
Thank you. I thought you were but I genuinely had to correct myself and think ‘But what if they’re not joking?’.
I’m tired.
- Comment on My husband may be a 73-year-old White man, but he’s a chill, progressive gentleman. 13 hours ago:
I don’t think you can point to any one root cause of racism.
- Comment on A lot less blue too... Hmmmm.... 13 hours ago:
In this age of misinformation I realize I can no longer determine if something is a joke.
- Comment on Did you do this at your highschool? 2 days ago:
But have you seen Hobo with a Shotgun?
- Comment on Lakorns. 3 days ago:
Crimson Desert.
I have never played a game like this. So much good, but the bad is so bad.
- Comment on It is a multi-purpose tool 3 days ago:
I can’t think of a single heroin addict I’ve met that didn’t smoke cigarettes, but that could just be confirmation bias.
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 1 week ago:
8 times.
Human capacity never ceases to amaze me.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 1 week ago:
He’s been critical of Trump and I’m pretty sure he defines himself as apolitical. I’m not sure where you’re finding that he’s right wing, but I’m open to being proven wrong.
- Comment on Can't wait for my demonologist's advice. 1 week ago:
Gonna need a source on this one, could have sworn this was debunked.
- Comment on Why don't my shit and urine stink while they're inside me? 2 weeks ago:
If you leave your mouth open for long enough, you break the vacuum holding the shit and piss stink in and you’ll start smelling.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I think if you examine the quality of the dialogue itself — yes it was rather boring. However, the reactive aspect was neat — a character remembering the thing you last said and using it to justify their position is good. Even if that position ends up being boring due to poor writing.
- Comment on RuneScape's monthly membership now costs as much as a World of Warcraft subscription as Jagex announces its second price hike in less than 2 years 2 weeks ago:
Right, hence my question — 65 character slots doesn’t really mean much if you’ll only ever have the time to play one.
- Comment on RuneScape's monthly membership now costs as much as a World of Warcraft subscription as Jagex announces its second price hike in less than 2 years 2 weeks ago:
Has WoW actually become alt friendly in the recent expansions?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Odd, Firewatch was entirely forgettable for me — I don’t think I agree that it should have sparked a subgenre.
Should it be influential? Yes, I think they did a very good job with the dialogue. Am I surprised there aren’t ‘Firewatch-likes’? No.
- Comment on Great Tits 2 weeks ago:
Avian dinosaurs certainly existed, it isn’t inaccurate to just call them dinosaurs.
- Comment on Great Tits 2 weeks ago:
Chickens actively hunt and eat mice, as well. I’ve actually seen one of my chickens find, slam around until dead (I fucking hope it was dead anyway), and swallow whole a mouse.
Brutal little creatures. They would 100% kill and eat you if they were big enough/ you were small enough.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 2 weeks ago:
Fuck, you made me laugh cough with that last bit.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I guess that’s true, I have actually mentioned it to a few of my coworkers – they all had a reaction that more or less spoke ‘there simply isn’t enough time for that’ lol.
Tangentially, there’s also this bilibili show called ling long reincarnation that, whether I’m stupid for liking it or not, is awesome. The thing about it is that I’ve always felt like there’s something lost in translation about the show, or there are themese that I’m simply unaware of due to… well an overall lack of knowledge about Chinese language and culture, I suppose.
Idk, full immersion would be best like you said — I just have no idea where I’d find that in California. I’m sure there are places, but then there’s the extra layer of somehow finding enough time to actually absorb the language through immersion. Perhaps I’ll just take up Spanish lol, I always did well in it in school and it’s close enough to English. I think it would probably be much easier to find people who speak Spanish here.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Well, to answer your primary question — many of the people on the team I work with speak… it’s either Cantonese or Mandarin, I think they told me Mandarin but I’m not entirely sure. It isn’t something that would necessarily help me on a professional level, but it would help me on a personal level with many of them.
That’s genuinely my motivation, I don’t really care about ‘seeming’ bilingual — this is mostly to bring me closer to people who have helped me at work.
- Comment on I want to be... 2 weeks ago:
Ahh… that’s much better than what I thought you meant.
- Comment on I want to be... 2 weeks ago:
… huh?
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
We have been here for years, the NSA has been recording everything we say here in the U.S. for… a long time. I’m not actually clear on how long they’ve been doing it.
Also, I can buy a camera no wider than a penny and have it quite literally anywhere on my person without you knowing — unless nudists also have a rule where they drive to the nude beach naked, you’ve kinda been shit out of luck for a while there too.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Since Lemmy apparently has a ton of people who are bilingual — how do I as a 31 year old man that knows enough Spanish to say ‘Thank you, where is the bathroom?’ and frequently watches anime in subtitles gain another language? I’m open to all suggestions, except bad ones.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 2 weeks ago:
They’re right, we know exactly the kind of damage snorting powdered drugs has on your nose and heart. They were taking a calculated risk, you were just rolling the dice with your health. Owned again, liberal.
(I AM JOKING)
- Comment on Gaysadilla 2 weeks ago:
Ok, but do you have weed?
For reference, I look like John Lennon with longer hair and I definitely have weed. So the stereotype about me is 100% true.
- Comment on Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year 2 weeks ago:
No issue with that at all, merely sharing my perspective.
- Comment on Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year 2 weeks ago:
Yes, though I think of them more as the times I unknowingly supported a company that was actively contributing to the death of digital literacy in the western world.
So, tomato potato — or whatever.
- Comment on Anon introduces himself 3 weeks ago:
Is it cruel?
I don’t agree, I think if you force a crying child to say their name — that’s obviously going too far. But it is important to get kids used to socializing, human beings need other human beings ultimately.
- Comment on Just one more square bro 4 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure that waffle could easily fit 5 rows of 5, am I crazy?
- Comment on How we are brought into this world 4 weeks ago:
Which part, the baby sitting inside the woman like a suit or the ARM?